The film "Star Wars: Awakening of Power" was the 2015 cash register in Russia

The seventh episode of the legendary space saga "Star Wars: Awakening of Power" was the 2015 cash desk in Russia. This is stated in the press release of The Walt Disney Company Russia & cis, published on the company's website .

"At the moment, the collections of the film in the Russian Federation are more than 1,717,000,000 rubles (1.71 billion rubles)," the report says. This is the second result in cash fees in Russia in the history of the domestic film distribution - after the film by James Cameron "Avatar".

The total fees of the seventh episode of Star Wars in Russia and the CIS countries exceeded 1.86 billion rubles, the company notes. Recall that in Russian rental the picture was released on December 17, 2015.

In addition, the film set a record for fees in IMAX halls in Russia and the CIS countries: it earned more than 336 million rubles. "This is the first place in the fees in this format in the history of the domestic film distribution," the press release says.

Earlier it was reported that the seventh episode of Star Wars, based on the results of the past weekend, raised more than $ 2 billion at the world box office and $ 900 million in American, showing the third result in the election of cinema - after Avatar and Titanic.